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| 1978 |
| | | Former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro is abducted and assassinated by the terrorist Red Brigades | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Italian cardinal Albino Luciani is elected pope and takes the name John Paul I | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Pope John Paul I dies, after a pontificate of only 33 days | |
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| 1978 |
| | | A Catholic-Orthodox joint commission acknowledges the long-term aim of re-establishing full communion between the two churches | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla is elected pope and takes the name John Paul II | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Italian academic Umberto Eco publishes The Name of the Rose, a medieval murder mystery | |
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| 1981 |
| | | A Turkish assailant in St Peter's Square in Rome shoots and seriously wounds John Paul II | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Diego Maradona is sold to Napoli for a new record fee of about £5 million, two years after being sold to Barcelona for £3 million | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Luciano Berio's opera Un re in ascolto has its premiere in Salzburg | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Three tenors (Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras) sing at a concert in Rome to celebrate the World Cup | |
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